Biography

Rugged looks, brawny and stocky, with an aggressive style of dialogue delivery. Sultan Rahi the Pakistani film superstar was the ultimate action hero and firmly established himself as the biggest film personality from Pakistan. He was a Pakistani version of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, and James Bond all rolled into one with a Punjabi touch. He appeared in over 800 movies. Starting his career playing as a villain or character roles he gradually progressed to a hero. However, following the phenomenal success of Maula Jat (1979) he, in tandem with Mustafa Qureshi, was considered essential in any Punjabi movie hoping to succeed. He played the most number of 'title roles'.

Some of his major films include Maula Jatt, Sher Khan (1981), Chan Veryam (1981), Kaley Chore, and Sakhi Badshah (1996). A one-man film industry power-house during the 1980s and 90's he had an extremely successful film career which came to a tragic and premature end with his assassination in January 1996.
- IMDb mini biography by: N Khan

Large moustache, thick black hair, halberd-style weapon, and loud and overly aggressive dialog delivery.

He had five children, of which one, Haider Sultan, is also an actor.

After unprecedented success of Maula Jat (1979), Sultan Rahi was almost constantly typecast as overly aggressive, impossible to kill, bloodied defender of his loved-ones.

Despite his extremely aggressive on-screen persona, Sultan Rahi claimed to be a very mild-mannered and cheerful person.

Sultan Rahi's movies, alongside Soviet-Afghan War, are often credited with contributing to Pakistan's so-called "Kalashnikov Culture", a culture marked by excessive and easy availability of firearms in Pakistan resulting in increase in firearm-related violence.